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Nov 17, 2008

Alvarion® Creates WiMAX Zones for Emerging Markets in Support of Intel’s World Ahead Program

Joint demonstration at AfricaCom, Cape Town Convention Center, Booth C12A, November 18-19, 2008

TEL AVIV, Israel, November 17, 2008 — Alvarion® Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR)

The solution has been created in conjunction with the Intel World Ahead Program – a program with

Emerging market operators can benefit from the following features offered through this solution:

Equipment to support 1-5 cells.

3^{rd party deployment, management, and training services.}

Marketing consulting support.

Financial strategy assistance.

"Alvarion is proud to provide innovative WiMAX solutions as part of the Intel World Ahead Program aimed at improving communications infrastructure in emerging markets," said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. "This project further demonstrates our continuous focus and effort to provide products and solutions that specifically address emerging market needs. This also adds another dimension to our relationship with Intel as we support Intel’s unique project for connecting millions of people to the Internet."

"Both Intel and Alvarion believe that WiMAX provides an easy to deploy solution for supporting broadband connectivity in emerging markets," said John Davies, vice president, Sales and Marketing group at Intel and general manager of the Intel World Ahead program. "We look forward to work with Alvarion on solutions that provide great flexibility and performance needed for these kinds of projects."

About AlvarionAlvarion is the largest WiMAX pure player, ensuring customer long-term success with fixed and mobile solutions for the full range of frequency bands. Based on its OPEN WiMAX strategy, the company offers superior wireless broadband infrastructure and an all-IP best-of-breed ecosystem in cooperation with its strategic partners. Alvarion has delivered over 200 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide (
the objective to bring affordable technology to the next one billion people including connectivity. ^{www.alvarion.com}^{).
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All other companies' names, products, services may be the properties of their respective owners.}}, the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it is creating WiMAX Zone Rapid Deployment Kits (RDKs) to enable carriers quick and easy deployment of broadband services in small to medium sized emerging market areas. Together with Alvarion, Intel plans to promote these RDKs at AfricaCom and assist prospective carriers with regulatory and NGO (non-governmental organization) relationships, as well as develop broadband go-to-market strategies.

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